With Companion being a critical and box office success and with Novocaine looking to match that 2025 is looking to be a good year for Jack Quaid.

Directed by Dan Berk and Robert Olsen, both have worked together on a number of mostly forgettable films in the past, Novocaine is a smart fast paced action film that’s a lot of fun if you can stand all the gore and blood.

Jack Quaid plays Nathan a mild manner worker in a credit union who falls for his new co-worker Sherry Margrave (Amber Midthunder). Nathan as we find out is slightly different from anyone else in that he feels no pain.

When the credit union is robbed and Sherry is kidnapped Nathan goes in pursuit of the kidnappers.

What follows is basically a chase movie where in the process of tracking down Sherry, Nathan is stabbed, shot, punched, kicked, burnt, tortured. I could go on and on but needless to say anything that can inflict pain, or not in Nathan’s case, pretty much happens to him.

Novocaine isn’t for the squeamish as Nathan suffers more pain and torture than any human being could possibly handle and expect to live. Third degree burns, blood loss etc. not any issue for Nathan.

As you can probably no doubt gather Novocaine is pretty much bonkers and there comes a point about the 90 minute mark where Novocaine comes to a natural conclusion. But as if the previous 90 minutes of insanity wasn’t enough directors Dan Berk and Robert Olsen ramp the action up a notch for an even more gruesome and frankly unnecessary final 20 minutes.

Novocaine, if you have the stomach for it, is a lot of fun it’s just a shame that the directors didn’t know when to say cut.